It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life a….

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them;….

There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands se….

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilli….

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize v….

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of H….

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever m….

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny..

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love..

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty th….

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this….

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved ….

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with ….

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, whic….

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of ….

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believe….

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysteriou….

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, the….

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it ….

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought..

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone..